Product Description
A textbook for elementary optical design that treats lasers, modulators, and scanners as part of the design process. Moves from the simplest concepts in optics to a basic understanding of ray tracing in optical systems, the components of those systems, and the process by which a design is produced. Features numerous problems, examples, and figures…. More >>
Elements of Modern Optical Design
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#1 by Anonymous on July 4, 2010 - 12:12 pm
O’Shea is probably the easiest reading optics book I have ever read. It had great examples and gave a very solid overview of many topics. The y-u ray tracing technique he lays out is very powerful yet simple and is a must-know method for quick and dirty design of optical systems. O’Shea doesn’t go into extreme detail and really only includes vital equations so the book is more of a concept book than a dictionary of equations. Another great book to check out is “Introduction to Optics” by Pedrotti & Pedrotti.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on July 4, 2010 - 1:13 pm
This is a great book. For a working engineer in optics it is one of the three you need to survive. I rate it just under Smith, and Kingslake for usable content; which is no small tribute. It is written in plain, clear Engish with worked numerical examples. Those examples are well chosen to cover the interesting uses of a technique. I’m paying the author the ultimate compliment. I’m in the process of ordering a second copy, since somebody snagged mine.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by John Isenberg on July 4, 2010 - 2:06 pm
This is one of the few optics textbooks that includes an accessible, engineering-oriented discussion of gaussian beam propagation (Chapter 7). Useful for the designer of laser scanners, etc. That chapter alone makes this a book worth having.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Anonymous on July 4, 2010 - 3:41 pm
I only had the opportunity to scan the texbook to extract technical info to understand a training manual written by Donald O’Shea for Photon Inc. (who makes the BeamScan machine). The manual is an absolute disaster: numerous diagrams are wrong; some instructions are incomplete; theory is given in hard-to-follow style. I got the training manual for free and did not have enough courage to buy O’Shea’s textbook (at $130), i.e., if a training manual is that bad, the textbook must be in similar shape. I expected better from a PhD professor at Georgia Tech.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by jasmin gauvin on July 4, 2010 - 5:15 pm
This book has not at all been tasteful for me. I think than the author should rename it: “How to design a laser printer for dummier”. I honestly don’t know why and what an example about laser printer is doing in such book. Ok, now because I read it I know how the laser printer I use work. But even that part is incomplete. I have seen in an optical handbook more and more information about that. Only the different point shape/pattern was a one page table and O¡¯Shea did not speak at all about that choice.
So, let¡¯s talk about this famous laser printer example. Just in itself you don¡¯t think so than such apparatus is more relevant of non imaging system and it¡¯s not at all a good end for a book about optic design in general. The right place to speak about that could be in some expert textbook witch one is really dedicated to non-imaging system.
I can’t say this book is full of lack, hole and omission, etc. But It¡¯s really difficult to fellow where Mr. Donald C. O’Shea is interested to bring you.
Rating: 1 / 5